Quotees Archive

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don’t seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

- Henry Ford

You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.

- Henry Ford

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

- Henry Ford

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

- Henry Ford

Why should I clutter up my mind with general knowledge, for the purpose of being able to answer questions, when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I acquire.

- Henry Ford

Thinking (of how to improve your life and business) is the hardest thing there is. That is why so few people engage in it.

- Henry Ford

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

- Henry Ford

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

- Henry Ford

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

- Henry Ford

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

- Henry Ford

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

- Henry Ford

There is no man living who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.

- Henry Ford

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

- Henry Ford

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

- Henry Ford

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

- Henry Ford

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

- Henry Ford

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

- Henry Ford

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

- Henry Ford

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

- Henry Ford

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

- Henry Ford

What’s right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity – intellect and resources – to do some thing about them.

- Henry Ford

Well, sometimes you just don’t like somebody.

- Henry Ford

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

- Henry Ford

We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s dam is the history we make today.

- Henry Ford

To do more for the world than the world does for you – that is success.

- Henry Ford

Money is like an arm or leg – use it or lose it.

- Henry Ford

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

- Henry Ford

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

- Henry Ford

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

- Henry Ford

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

- Henry Ford

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

- Henry Ford

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

- Henry Ford

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

- Henry Ford

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

- Henry Ford

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

- Henry Ford

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

- Henry Ford

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

- Henry Ford

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said ‘faster horses.’

- Henry Ford

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

- Henry Ford

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

- Henry Ford

If you say you can or you can’t you are right either way

- Henry Ford

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

- Henry Ford

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

- Henry Ford

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

- Henry Ford

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

- Henry Ford

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

- Henry Ford

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

- Henry Ford

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

- Henry Ford

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

- Henry Ford

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

- Henry Ford